Truth on Trial: The Lawsuit Motif in the Fourth Gospel. By Andrew T. Lincoln
That the Gospel of John is basically a trial or lawsuit has been suggested previously, notably by A. E. Harvey (Jesus on Trial, 1976), but Andrew Lincoln has now devoted a 500-page monograph to the subject. Lincoln begins with a literary analysis that takes its lead from the work of Culpepper (Anato...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 221-226 |
| Review of: | Truth on trial (Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, 2000) (Smith, D. Moody)
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| Summary: | That the Gospel of John is basically a trial or lawsuit has been suggested previously, notably by A. E. Harvey (Jesus on Trial, 1976), but Andrew Lincoln has now devoted a 500-page monograph to the subject. Lincoln begins with a literary analysis that takes its lead from the work of Culpepper (Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel), among others, but goes beyond them in concentrating on the trial motif. In his view, this motif is the engine that drives the narrative plot forward (cf. p. 149). Chapter 1 (‘The Lawsuit and the Narrative of the Fourth Gospel’) first identifies the key terms witness or testimony (martyreo, martyria) and judgement (krino, krisis) that have inescapable juridical and legal connotations and that cohere in the recurring trial or lawsuit motif of the Gospel. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll017 |